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MAKI Gallery is pleased to present Brooklyn-based artist, photographer, film and bookmaker Ari Marcopoulos’s first exhibition with the gallery, Against the Current, at Tennoz II, Tokyo. Although Marcopoulos is most known for his photographic works documenting American subcultures, such as leading artists, musicians, skateboarders, and snowboarders, the scope of his practice is much more extensive. Over the past four decades, the artist has consistently captured a wide range of diverse subjects from his everyday life. Marcopoulos’s interest lies in capturing his subjects’ lives as they are in the moment, with no intention of dramatising or commercialising them. The works emerge out of a genuine interaction, where the artist and the subject acknowledge each other with honesty and authenticity. The resulting images successfully deliver the intimacy of individual personality without redundant sentimentality, essentially representing a candid archive of different people’s lives.

Against the Current offers a glimpse into what Marcopoulos values and attempts to achieve as an image-maker.